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Resourcing will not feed through to pool Microsoft Project

Resourcing will not feed through to pool

Posted: 21 Jul 2005 02:08 AM PDT



Ms MIS wrote: 
I've seen this on a number of occasions where clients had many projects
(20 - 40 maybe?) connected to a resource pool. Eventually they become
corrupt, beging doing weird things like you're seeing. I've never been
able to trace the exact causes. Some of the symtoms are:
"Ghost tasks" - tasks that continue to remain in the RP after the
project they came from has been removed from the RP.
Tasks showing different hours than what the current schedule shows
(hours they were previously scheduled for)
RP locking up.
RP won't open.

For clients in this situation, I created rigorous protocols to connect
projects to the RP and for removing them. I've never been back with
these clients, so I don't know if the problems continued.

A rememdy I've seen here is to store all the projects and the RP in
Access, then re-create them back in .mpp format. I think if I got them
all over into Access, and they worked, I'd just keep them there.
Hope this helps in your world.

Create Project by Person

Posted: 20 Jul 2005 11:36 AM PDT

What will you do when two or more people are working together on a task?
The method you're thinking about is going to have multiple entries for the
same task, distorting the timeline of your work.
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Sending info to client without including cost data

Posted: 20 Jul 2005 11:20 AM PDT

Cindy wrote:
 

I would do a File Save As and make a copy of the current state of your
Project. I would then change the rates for everyone to $0 or $1 and then
do a Tools | Tracking | Clear Baseline and clear the baselines you might
have saved while the rate was higher. Then manually remove any values from
Fixed Cost fields.

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MSProject crashes when monitor display settings change.

Posted: 20 Jul 2005 09:23 AM PDT

I found a previous posting on 4/20/05 that answers this question... at least
I think.
"Crash Loop with PowerPoint and Projector" 4/20/2005

"DEslinger" wrote:
 

HOW TO SAVE A IMAGE OF MS PROJECT AS SCREENSAVER

Posted: 20 Jul 2005 08:29 AM PDT

If you mean MS Project you can use Edit, Copy Picture, to make a .gif file.

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MSP2003 - linking tasks using % complete to drive start date

Posted: 20 Jul 2005 08:07 AM PDT

Following other's suggestions, I prefer to show such situations as FS-25%.
Buty there's a consideration to keep in mind regardless of how you do it. A
link is a permissive control. It does not exist to force the schedule to
fit a particular timetable. When you have a predecessor linked FS to a
successor, it says that there is some physical reason that the predecessor
must complete before the precessor is even ABLE to start. Maybe the
predecessor produces some parts that the successor requires, for example.
Lead times like we're talking about modify that relationship slightly saying
that you can go ahead and start the successor when the predecessor has
produced enough parts to proceed even if it hasn't finished all of them that
it's going to produce. So when you enter the lead times as we've suggested,
make very very sure that it's physically possible for it to happen that way
and you're not just using the technique to force the schedule into what
you'd like it to be without regard to whether it's realistic to do it that
way or not.

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Why doesn't my Office 2000 Professional have PROJECT on it?

Posted: 20 Jul 2005 07:51 AM PDT

Project is sold separately from Office Pro.
Visio is the same way.
They are in the office "family" but they aren't part of the "Office"
product.
If they weren't then microsoft would probably charge a fortune for Office.

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Displaying Quarters

Posted: 20 Jul 2005 07:45 AM PDT

Philg wrote:
 

There is no such thing as Q0. There is Q1 and before that there is Q-1.
The project starts at a single point in time (by default on 8am on the day
you specify as the Project Start Date) The 'clock' for quarters, weeks,
etc starts there. This is the same idea that said that the millenium ended
on December 31st 1999 when really it ended at the end of 2000 since there
was no year 0. :-|

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MS Project gives gbui://blank.htm error. Registry patch not work

Posted: 20 Jul 2005 06:48 AM PDT


ooooops! My mistake - I meant SP1, sorry:(


Mike Glen
Project MVP

Mike Glen wrote: 

$1 cost rate

Posted: 20 Jul 2005 05:37 AM PDT

In article <com>,
Jan M. <microsoft.com> wrote:
 

Jan,
You're welcome.
John

resource sheet - max unit column's and calculation of duration

Posted: 20 Jul 2005 12:18 AM PDT


Hi Mahesh,

You have been correctly informed, but let's have a different slant. If you
re-set your example with Fixed Work, Max Units 100% and 8 hours of work for
1 day. Now, in the Resource Sheet view, reduce the max.availability to 50%,
Project will mark the overallocation by turning the Resource Name red. If
you try to level you will get a message to the effect that Project cannot
resolve the overallocation. So you have to do it yourself. Change the
duration to 2 days and all is well, the overallocation disappears. The
result of this is the Finish Date goes out by 2 days - but you have to
manage this, as changing the Max Units doesn't change the Finish Dates.

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://www.mvps.org/project/

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on :)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP


Jan De Messemaeker wrote: 

Critical path does not trace to beginning of project

Posted: 19 Jul 2005 06:38 PM PDT

In article <com>,
"David" <microsoft.com> wrote:
 


David,
I don't know if my fellow MVP's answers hit the mark but I would like to
comment on something else you mentioned. Although Project will allow
Predecessors and Successors on Summary Lines, it is not a recommended
practice. In the best case, links to Summary Lines can cause unexpected
results and in the worst case, circular relationships may occur.

Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP

Will Microsoft Project 2000 run on an XP Home Operating system?

Posted: 19 Jul 2005 02:10 PM PDT

In article <com>,
"jolie" <microsoft.com> wrote:
 

Jolie,
Most definitely. Many people, including myself, use Project 98, 2000,
and 2003 with Windows XP Home.

Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP

Creating subprojects from a project

Posted: 19 Jul 2005 12:21 PM PDT

nan wrote:
 

When you copied the tasks did you click "Copy" or "Copy Tasks"?

If you select the tasks by selecting their 'row header' and then clicking
copy tasks you should get the resources that are assigned along with them.
This should include their rate information. If you are not getting rates
you could manually verify that the resources that are in the new projects
have the correct rate info.

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Summary Task Durations

Posted: 19 Jul 2005 11:30 AM PDT


Try Tools/Options.../Schedule tab and Durations in entered in minutes. If
you have small durations, this should show the Duration in minutes. if it
stll zero, you have other problems.

We need to discover whether your project is at fault, whether it is Project
at fault, or whether it's your PC. Does the symptom occur with other
projects on this PC? Does it occur with this project on other PCs? Does it
occur with other projects on other PCs?


Mike Glen
MS Project MVP




Mike wrote: 

Colored Resources

Posted: 19 Jul 2005 08:27 AM PDT

Hi,

I get more and more confused.
The resource calendar is what I see through Tools, Change Working time.
AFAIK, It doesn't have ANY coloring facility.
How does MS project call the view you want to work in?

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Pocket PC version of Project

Posted: 18 Jul 2005 03:03 PM PDT

stupidquestion wrote:
 

Not from MS but CyWren systems has some cool stuff. I have not tried
anything from them in a very long time but I have heard good things.
www.cywren.com

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Export Time Phased Data

Posted: 18 Jul 2005 12:37 PM PDT

In article <com>,
Cheryl <microsoft.com> wrote:
 


Cheryl,
Sorry if this is duplicate post - I had a power outage last night and it
messed up my clock.

Unfortunately the "Analyze" utility exports data by assignment.
Therefore, unassigned task data is not exported. There are two choices.
The easiest is to temporarily assign a dummy resource to "unassigned"
tasks and then use the utility, or use an advanced feature of Project,
namely VBA, and create a custom macro to export the exact data you need.
I prefer the latter because it gives me total flexibility, but then, not
everybody knows how or wants to use VBA.

Text fields are another matter. They are not timescaled so the utility
will not work for them. Again you have two choices. One simple method is
a cut and paste from Project to Excel. The second is to use an export
map to export the static (i.e. non-timescaled) data from Project to
Excel. Once in Excel the timescaled and static data can be combined as
desired.

Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP

Protecting the detail

Posted: 18 Jul 2005 08:48 AM PDT

Hi Cheryl,

The crux of what I'm trying to do here is not present a printed image of the
milestones that someone would have to transcribe into a bigger plan but to
give select 'feeds' of key milestones that could be easily integrated. A
gantt is the preferred way to do this purely from the 'picture... 1,000
words' point of view, however task names and dates is a fall back position.

Thanks all,

Jon C

"Cheryl" wrote:
 

Error msg - overwrite default version of a project

Posted: 18 Jul 2005 07:16 AM PDT

Thanks Julie... I posted over there.

"JulieS" wrote:
 

Adding an Enterprise Project Text Field to the Timesheet View

Posted: 18 Jul 2005 07:00 AM PDT

its easy,,
create that code and go to Tools> Customize and select Published Fields..
Found ur field in the list and say ok



"JulieS" wrote:
 

resource availability conflict - Project doesn't show me!!!

Posted: 18 Jul 2005 01:58 AM PDT

Thanks for your support. I guess a smart formula would do the trick,
but that's too complex for me.
I fully agree that Project should show a red flag in this case. Is
there any way to ask Microsoft directly?
Wim

How do I add slack to a task?

Posted: 16 Jul 2005 10:45 AM PDT



Jan De Messemaeker wrote: 

For shame, Jan! That is the official, correct and only right name for
it!
See, I can be a "purist" too! :)

I learned that term for it in the mid-eighties from a consultant, Bob
Sebald, from whom I took an excellent PM class. I don't care if they
call in "rhinocerous", as long as they use it!

outline a project by using intentions

Posted: 16 Jul 2005 08:08 AM PDT

Jan,

Yep! The supervisor may have meant or actually said INDENTIONS but it came
out of the student's mouth as INTENTIONS (asked him to repeat it a couple of
times) - at any rate we covered indentions as well - both indenting and
outdenting. Thanks for the suggestion.

Marie

"Jan De Messemaeker" wrote:
 

properly close ms project file opened by other user

Posted: 15 Jul 2005 03:09 PM PDT

No I don't

I just store projects in sql database and use a ressource project

CB

"Gérard Ducouret" wrote: